As soon as you enter the room, a stone slab falls into place behind you. At the lowest point in the chamber is ankle deep sewage. A set of dials is on the wall next to the door. In the middle of this room is a statue of a Rat Warrior. The statue itself is covered in sewage and grime, but the battle axe it is wielding seems to be clear of muck and patina. The base of the statue seems to have some sort of writing on it. The squeaking sounds of rats seems to surround the entire area. As if they are in the walls and coming closer. There are visible cracks in the wall near the floor that would be large enough to allow a rat access.
Giant Rat
The Dials: There are four dials each labeled with a letter RATS. Each can be set to a number 0-9.
Engraved into the axe are six words. They are as follows: state – germs – trees – tears – rest – ages
Written on the base of the statue:
There are 6 made of 28. First, you must separate.
Put them into 7 like Piles. Only then will you escape the vile.
Four Numbers are all you need. Counting each Pile is the key
Solution
There are 6 made of 28
There are six (6) words on the Battle Axe. Our first Clue indicates that the 6 words are made up of 28 letters. The letters are important to the solution, not the words that they create.
First you must Separate.
This means the characters will need to separate the letters.
Put them into 7 like Piles.
There are only 7 different letters used in the six words presented on the Rat god’s battle axe. If we could physically take each letter and put them into like piles, there would only be 7 piles. We will need to make a pile of letters: S, T, A, G, E, R and M
Four Numbers is all you need
This refers to the Dials by the door. We have four dials and need four numbers.
Counting each pile is the key:
After separating all 28 letters into 7 piles we count each pile of letters and get the following:
- The letter E was used 7 times
- The letter S was used 6 times.
- The letter T was used 5 times.
- The letter R was used 4 times
- The letter A was used 3 times.
- The letter G was used 2 times
- The letter M was used 1 time
Looking back at our dials, each one has a letter underneath. These letters correspond to how many times it was used in the 6 names on the axe.
- Set Dial 1 (the “R” dial) to 4… The letter R was used 4 times.
- Set Dial 2 (the “A” dial) to 3… The letter A was used 3 times.
- Set Dial 3 (the “T” dial) to 5… The letter T was used 5 times.
- Set Dial 4 (the “S” dial) to 6… The letter S was used 6 times.
After the hands of each dial are moved to the correct number, the door will crumble to sand and the adventurers may exit the
chamber.
Failure
Entering in the wrong four numbers will still open the door, but they won't get the point for completing the puzzle correctly.
XP Earned if successful with the puzzle: 3,900
If they solved the puzzle, they will receive one point with the Eladrin. Keep track of the party's score as they go along. At the completion of each challenge, their score will be announced by the ringing of a bell for each point they have earned.
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